Taking a trip paid for by company that you’re reporting about`
Felix Salmon of Reuters doesn’t like that Business Insider’s Dan Frommer has taken a trip to Spain sponsored by Samsung so that he can report on Samsung’s products. Salmon writes, “For one thing, Frommer’s not just scrounging up whatever’s necessary to get him to the conference and report. He’s was flown over ‘in posh business […]
Taking a trip paid for by company that you're reporting about`
Felix Salmon of Reuters doesn’t like that Business Insider’s Dan Frommer has taken a trip to Spain sponsored by Samsung so that he can report on Samsung’s products. Salmon writes, “For one thing, Frommer’s not just scrounging up whatever’s necessary to get him to the conference and report. He’s was flown over ‘in posh business […]
Engadget editor resigns
Paul Miller, the editor of the Engadget tech blog owned by AOL, resigned and left the operation on Friday. On his blog, Miller wrote, “Since that fateful fall of 2005, it’s really all been a blur. I’ve moved to NY, flown all over the world, held and photographed thousands of gadgets, podcasted my heart out […]
Financial news and the use of social media
Ellie Behling of eMediaVitals.com writes about the panel at the New York Stock Exchange earlier this week that discussed how the financial news media use Twitter and social media. Behling writes, “In some ways, financial news sites have been more forward-thinking in digital and social than one might expect. After all, an affluent audience tending […]
Wired tech blog to become movie or TV show
Jay Fernandez of The Hollywood Reporter writes that the popular GeekDad blog on the Wired magazine site has sold its rights for developing a TV show or movie around the name. Fernandez writes, “What began as a popular blog on the Wired website devoted to tech-savvy geek fathers has bloomed into a bestselling book, a […]
Blogs keep real estate media honest
Orange County Register real estate reporter and columnist Jon Lansner interviewed Rich Toscano, author of the Piggington blog — “Professor Piggington’s Econo-Almanac for the Landed Poor” — about how blogging has changed real estate coverage. Here is an excerpt: Us: What has real estate blogging done for the housing market in terms of getting news […]
Huffington Post “fires” freelance labor journalist
Joe Pompeo of Yahoo News writes that Huffington Post has “fired” an unpaid labor reporter who blogs for its site, Mike Elk, for participating in a weekend labor event in Washington that he had obtained a press credential to cover. Pompeo writes, “‘I’m sorry to say we are revoking your access to our blog and […]
Assessing SeekingAlpha.com's new pay strategy
Justin Ellis of the Nieman Journalism Lab writes about financial news site SeekingAlpha.com’s decision to begin paying its contributors. Ellis writes, “When I spoke with Seeking Alpha’s CEO, David Jackson, last week, he told me that the site’s contributors were a mix of novice writers with backgrounds in the financial industries as well as established […]
Explaining the European economy through music
This is how you explain what’s going on in the European economy to people who may not otherwise care. Next week on “NewsHour” business and economics correspondent Paul Soman‘s blog “Making Sense,” investment advisor Jon Shayne who croons economics lessons using the “nom de country” Merle Hazard, will a song a day explaining the financial crises […]
Why Freakonomics blog is leaving NYTimes.com
Stephen Dubner explains why the popular Freakonomics blog is leaving the New York Times site and striking out on its own. Dubner writes, “In the 3.5 years since we came to NYTimes.com, the Freakonomics project has expanded to include a variety of content in various media — the books, a documentary film, a public-radio project*, […]
